Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-03-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.


The Cunard steamers each consume
$50 tons of coal day.
Last year LOO elergymen went to
Jne New York theatre.
Hartford, Conn.,, is to to have q
lew $50, 900 opera house.
There Is Chinese cowboy In Ari-
iona. His nams IS Wan Che.
The power of a leader depends upon
.he weakness Of his followers.
There are 400, 900 unmarried men
n Paris against $50, 200 married men.
during ths year 1886, thIrty-six
telegraph Offices were opened in China.
There are I3O, ,OOO, 600 men In India
OF whom about 1905, 600 can read and
write.
"A blind man in Iowa can tell the
color of red hot stove simply by touch
ing it.
African epicWes are credited with
strong weakness for baked young
monkey.
julian HawthOrne's little 11-year-
old daughter can walk a mile in seven
minutes.
1t Is said that the white pine lum.
Der OF Michigan will be exhausted In a
few years.
Stock Exchange people sometimes
irreverently refer TO mediums as ''deal-
ers in futures"
Women are acknowledged by the
Gar to be among his most efficient Sc
cret detectives.
Jean lngelow has been left a con-
siderable fortune by the will Of a de-
ceased relative in London.
Canada has a young Indian poetess
in the person of Pauline johnson, re-
siding at Brantford.
OIL paintings are now used BY
Presbyterian preacher in Pittsburg to
illustrate his sermons.
Every minor under 10 years of age
Is to be pardone1 out Of the Tennessee
penitentIary by the Governor Of that
State.
The main spring of Waterbury
watch Is twenty-four feet long. The
spring Of an ordinary watch IS twenty
six inches.
"A society to assist servants to get
their wages is said by the New York
Nal and Express to be one of the needs
Of that city.
1t costs $4,000 in salaries for each
performance Of "O;ello," VsTdi's new
opera, with 5000 per night to Tamagns
as the highest.
Queen Margherila of Italy does all
her own shopping and IS very well able
to take care of herself in managing her
domestic affairs.
Mr.. Beecher many years ago e1-
pressed the benef that death would
come to him, when 1t did come. In an
apopieetic stroke.
"A woman of 70 years, who was
buried at West Peabody, Mass, last
week, had never ridden on a horse car
or railroad train.
Early in January the temperature
in Southern and Central Australia. the
British Aus,rdliNa reports, ranged from
l04O to 1l6o in the shade.
The youngest typs-setter of whom
there Is any record is the 9-year-old
man. She does the work well.
Thus far this winter 122I inches of
snow have fallen at Newport, VT. The
average precipitation there during sew
eral winters past has been 97t.
The new congress hall for Buenos
Ayres, South America, will cost SlO,-
10000. The grounds cover twenty
acres in the best part Of the city.
AT an auction sale OF circus the
,ther day, Empress, an elephant, sold
or 81, 800. while an African spotted
lyena was knocked down for s45.
"A burglar on Long Island, took
among other things, cornet belonging
o an amateur. and the neighbors are
'elieved to be recOnciled to his loss.
Several blocks in New York, ac-
ording to 2. o. Inspector Darcy, are
with the "sawdust"
windle and confidence games OF other
orts.
Jersey City reports a municipal
ebt OF less than Sl6, ,0O0, 600 with city
roperty and bonds enough to pay it, not
o speak OF nearly 81 millions OF unpaid
axes.
An extra session Of the West Vir-
inia Legislature has been called to
leet next month to consider railroad
nd otter subjects suggested by the
Governor.
German papers have accounts of
remedy against hydrophobia,
aid to have been in possession of a
amily at PlZa, in Holland, for over q
entury.
"A Newark, n. j., belle, who was
ripped up while dancing at bali a
ouple of weeks ago, IS dying from the
esult of the accident, by which her
pine was injured.
Alaska, in the opinion OF II. w,
elliott, author of tue latest work Oh the
ubJect, is virtually an Improbable
aryaln, except as to It's fisheries and
lmber prospects.
Jacob Trovinger has just celebrated
Is 92d birthday anniversary on the
arm on which he was born, at Port
loyal, and on which he has raised II
hildren, of whom only one is dead.
"A st. Louis woman who went to
he Morgue to identity the dead body
a step-sister, found on the adjoining
able that Of her husband, from whom
he had been separated several years.
Coal has been struck near Omaha,
'eb., according to the Bee of that
lace. The drill struck it at $40 feet.
he coal is said to lie OF very good
uality and the vein Is four feet thick.
"A veteran politician gives this ad.
ice to young men. Don't drink, and
ont go into politics. Neither has
ope me any harm, but while 1 have
'caped, hundreds have been ruined by
hem.
Wilmington, VT, is nearly in the
entire OF the largest msple-sugar max
Y section in the world. The largest
laker there ships 10000 gallons of
Trup yearly, and the business is grow
lg fast.
English sparrows, hitherto very
in Westboro', Mass, have
lddenly left town in body, having
cen shut out from their winter quar-
ITS, building where they had become